A corrupt real estate agent encourages Archie to sell his home for more than its market value.A corrupt real estate agent encourages Archie to sell his home for more than its market value.A corrupt real estate agent encourages Archie to sell his home for more than its market value.
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- Trivia"Blockbusting," which Mike accuses Chester Byrd of practicing, was a real problem during the era that this episode was originally produced and aired. As Mike suggests, it was a practice by unscrupulous real estate brokers to try to induce panic selling by property owners in formerly all-white neighborhoods where minority owners otherwise would have trouble buying property. They would sometimes leave notes on doors asking "for the address where the black family recently moved in" or - like Mr. Byrd - offering unreasonably high prices for one or two houses while spreading rumors that black families would soon be moving in. Although the practice has declined somewhat as many neighborhoods having become multi-racial or multi-ethnic, it was specifically banned by the Fair Housing Act of 1968, just three years before this episode aired.
- GoofsEdith was looking at the interior of the door frame of the closet by the front door, where they supposedly 'measured Gloria when she was at eleven and at two years old', even though its been mentioned various times that the Bunkers were living on Union Street when Gloria was around the age of eleven prior to them moving into this house.
- Quotes
Archie Bunker: You're colored.
Chester Byrd: Yes I am.
Archie Bunker: You didn't sound colored on the phone.
Chester Byrd: That's 'cause I used the white telephone.
- ConnectionsReferenced in All in the Family: Flashback - Mike and Gloria's Wedding: Part 2 (1972)
- SoundtracksThose Were the Days
(Opening Theme)
Written by Lee Adams and Charles Strouse
Performed by Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton
Featured review
Season 2 loaded with classic episodes so far
Edith saves Archie from himself. Push comes to shove, she comes through. Huge laughs with Chester Byrd (Thalmus Rasulala) negotiating with Archie. Then, Cousin Bertha (Peggy Rea) bursting Archie's bubble the best of many hilarious scenes.
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- vitoscotti
- Oct 18, 2021
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